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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL COLES, OF VALHALLA, NEW YORK.

ROAD-CART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,766, dated April 27, 1886.

' Application filed November 16,1885. Serial No. 193,059. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL (Jones, of Valhalla, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Road-Carts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parls in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of one of my improved road-carts. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same, taken through the line x 00, Fig. l.

The object of this invention is to provide road-carts constructed in such a manner that they will be unaffected by the horse motion, and will allow the horse to be driven with a loose girth, so that in going downhill the cart can be held back by the breeching. the girth having nothing to do with the motion of the cart.

A are the wheels to the axle B, to which are secured the lower parts of the springs 0. To the upper parts of the springs G are secured the end parts of a cross bar, D, which is made j wide and is slight-1y rounded upon the upper side.

E is the cart-body, which rests upon the cross-bar D, and is so arranged that its center of gravity will be directly over the said cross-bar. The cart-bod y Eis secured in place upon the cross-bar D by U bolts or staples F, which pass around the lower side of the said crossbar D and are secured to the said cartbody by nuts, as shown in Fig. 2. The U- bolts F are made a little larger than the crossbar D, so that the cart-body E will have a slight rocking movement upon the said crossbar D.

G are the shafts, which are attached to the cross-bar D. \Vith this construction motion received from the horse will only rock the cross-bar D, and will not affect the cart-body balanced upon the said cross-bar, and any sud" den jar of the cart can throw the cart-body forward or back only so far as to take up the play between the crossbar D and the U- bolts F.

If desired, the top of the cross-bar D canbe made flat, and the part of the cart-body E that rests upon it slightly rounded,without departing from my invention, the essential feature of which is to give the cart-body a slight rocking movement upon its support.

With road-carts constructed in the usual manner it is necessary to have the girth of the harness very tight to hold the shafts from an up and down movement caused by the forward and backward swing of the cart-body, so that in going downhill the holding-back strain comes upon the girth and saddle, instead of coming upon the breeching; but with my improvement the horse can be driven with a loose girth, and the holding-back strain comes upon the breeching, as the cart-body is freed from the forward and backward swing by being balanced upon the cross-bar D, so as not to be affected by the motion of the shafts.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with the axle bearing the springs and the shafts secured .upon the springs, of the crossbar having a convexed upper surface and secured upon the shafts and the body independently balanced upon the cross-bar and having enlarged staples loosely embracing the cross-bar, substantially as shown and described.

SAMUEL COLES.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. TIBBI'I, CHARLES D. SUTTON. 

